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Winner of the Pacemaker Award
All-American 1954-64
Vol. 59. No. 10
Friday, October 23, 1964
SK 1-31 18, SK 1-3119
Catholic Agnostics
Escape to Formulae
By MIKE SULLIVAN
Foghorn Associate Editor
If the Catholic believes something "simply ebecause it has
been written in an encyclical by
the Pope, then he is an agnostic," said Father Eugene Schallert of the USF .Sociology Department.
In remarks prepared for the
beginning of the lecture series
of the Men's and Women's Sodalities, Father Schallert made
these comments to about 150
students in the Phelan Hall Dining Room Wednesday night.
Commenting that the Catholic
who is committed to the "Catholic formulae" is actually an agnostic, he answered in a strong
affirmative to the question,
"Agnosticism on the Catholic
College Campus?"
Differentiating between the
sophisticated," system'atic agnostic, and the aggressive, brash
agnosticism of the college sophomore. Father Schallert said that
essentially the former does not
exist to any degree on the Catholic college campus.
"Neither," he said, "does it
exist to a great degree on the
secular campus. That there are
these people there is no doubt,
for they have written provocative books, which force the
Catholic intellectual to think
through his entire system."
The Catholic agnostic, as opposed to the sophisticated and
the "sophomoric" agnostics, is
the person who has adopted agnosticism "as a way of life, as
a set of feelings."
These are the people who are
not "engaged, in a meaningful
search, they are the people who
cannot ask meaningful questions! These piaople have committed themselves — although
not overtly—to agnosticism.
From another point of view,
Father Schallert said, "this approach to life might be a commitment to a set of answers,
More control
sought
on parking
In a recent notice to all students Fr. Lo Schiavo, S.J.,
Dean of Students, discussed
parking problems and what
the University plans to do
about them.
The members of the Board
of Student Control have been
requested to obtain the license
number of each student's car
when permanent student body
cards are issued. This action
results from reluctance on the
part of the City Planning Commission to grant permission
for USF's new dormitory and
Student Union.
The Commission bases its
relunctance on parking problems in the neighborhood and
has asked the University to
have on file the license numbers of all cars used by students.
In this way the University
can handle its own parking
violations and not force the
neighbors to report such violations to the police.
not a commitment to questioning. Life for these people is the
quest for the ready Catholic answer, and he feels that if he
does not have it, then somebody
else must."
He elucidated by saying that
this approach to life is one in
which the person feels that he
cannot learn or see, and although he comes up with the
formulated catechetical answer,
there is still no inner experience.
"There is the unwillingness,"
he said, "to transcend these
easy formulae, where the belief
is not one's own but someone
else's."
Basically, there are five types
of agnosticism to be found in
such a Catholic setting. The first
is the legalist, "the person who
is committed to going to mass
every Sunday and abstaining
from meat every Friday without thinking about the relation
between the man and the law.
He is interested in his Easter
duty or in weekly communion,
but he actually says, "I don't
know God, have never seen him,
and I don't think I can."
The second type of agnostic
is the person who has a need for
external props, the person who
relates to a principle and not to
people.
The third type of agnostic is
a special result of the Catholic
education system: the agnostic
of the ghetto. "This is the person who is not interested in going beyond himself, or his parish, or his city. Undergirding
this entire outlook is, once again,
(Continued on Page 5)
Moose Hal and Roses
THE FIVE ROSES—The five rose buds pictured above are all hoping to blossom into a full-
fledged queen at the annual Rose Dance sponsored by Delta Sigma Pi. They are, from left
lo right, Judy Ward, Providence; Carol Rilovich, Lone Mountain; Marina Adamich, Notre
Dame; Mary Rowland, Notre Dame, and Judy. Leary, USF. The winning American Beauty
will be named October 24 at the dance, to be h >M in Moose Lodge.
The Consumer Man
By RALPH FELICIELLO
He is one of those men whom we read about in our texts
(those books which save us the trouble of finding out what a
man meant by telling us what he said), a well-known figure
whose ability to think and whose courage to speak in themselves deserve our respect. Erich Fromm lectured at State
last Tuesday; I thought I'd listen to him.
"The Spiritual and Psychological Problems of Affluence"
was borrowed from an earlier work called The Sane Society.
Although Fromm is a disciple of Marx, he chose to clarify the
point. He said that the Russians practice 'real' Marxism
about as much as the West practices 'real' Christianity. We
all understood.
Fromm considers alienation one of the major psychological effects of capitalism. Man feels alienated from himself.
"He does not experience himself as the center from which
living acts of love and reason radiate." This is a result of
what has been called the marketing orientation a phenomenon of our industrial, technological society.
Man no longer experiences himself as a subject, as a
unique individual bearing powers and richness, but as an
impoverished and shallow being. This emptiness he attempts
to fill with things. He is no longer the sapient man but the
consumer man.
Gadgets clutter up our world, and our only connection
with them is that we know how to manipulate them. But why
claim innocence by speaking of that vague Man. Our own
lives belie this I-It approach to the world.
We are students, but how many of us consider knowledge
only another technique—know-how which will surely boost
our earning power and therefore our consumer power? There
are some of us who deceive ourselves into thinking we seek
truth, but by ignoring our own capacity to know, we foolishly
abdicate this awesome power to an institution or to books.
We erect false idols.
(Continued on Page 5)
Football expansion
is given a chance
that the Administration was considering dropping football because of a lack of interest.
According to sources in the
Administration, possibilities for
the expansion of the sport were
being considered, but the lack
of sufficient funds proved to be
the downfall of any expanded
program.
The members of the student
committee have been doing their
own checking into the financial
end and at the same time stirring student spirit.
Fr. Dullea was reported to
have expressed the thought that
football at USF will continue;
he said that the talk had opened
up "new areas of thought" for
him.
There may yet be a chance
for the expansion of football on
the Hilltop, according to Father
President.
Senior Class President Rich
Neilson told the ASUSF legislature Wednesday night that Fr.
Charles Dullea, S.J., President
of the University, would give
serious consideration to a gradual re-emphasis of the football
program at USF due to a growing enthusiasm for the sport
among the student body this
year.
A group of student leaders
met Tuesday afternoon with Fr.
Dullea in hopes to determine
just what the Administration
stand on football is. Earlier in
the year the Foghorn reported

sah £\zAn
foghotzn
Winner of the Pacemaker Award
All-American 1954-64
Vol. 59. No. 10
Friday, October 23, 1964
SK 1-31 18, SK 1-3119
Catholic Agnostics
Escape to Formulae
By MIKE SULLIVAN
Foghorn Associate Editor
If the Catholic believes something "simply ebecause it has
been written in an encyclical by
the Pope, then he is an agnostic," said Father Eugene Schallert of the USF .Sociology Department.
In remarks prepared for the
beginning of the lecture series
of the Men's and Women's Sodalities, Father Schallert made
these comments to about 150
students in the Phelan Hall Dining Room Wednesday night.
Commenting that the Catholic
who is committed to the "Catholic formulae" is actually an agnostic, he answered in a strong
affirmative to the question,
"Agnosticism on the Catholic
College Campus?"
Differentiating between the
sophisticated," system'atic agnostic, and the aggressive, brash
agnosticism of the college sophomore. Father Schallert said that
essentially the former does not
exist to any degree on the Catholic college campus.
"Neither," he said, "does it
exist to a great degree on the
secular campus. That there are
these people there is no doubt,
for they have written provocative books, which force the
Catholic intellectual to think
through his entire system."
The Catholic agnostic, as opposed to the sophisticated and
the "sophomoric" agnostics, is
the person who has adopted agnosticism "as a way of life, as
a set of feelings."
These are the people who are
not "engaged, in a meaningful
search, they are the people who
cannot ask meaningful questions! These piaople have committed themselves — although
not overtly—to agnosticism.
From another point of view,
Father Schallert said, "this approach to life might be a commitment to a set of answers,
More control
sought
on parking
In a recent notice to all students Fr. Lo Schiavo, S.J.,
Dean of Students, discussed
parking problems and what
the University plans to do
about them.
The members of the Board
of Student Control have been
requested to obtain the license
number of each student's car
when permanent student body
cards are issued. This action
results from reluctance on the
part of the City Planning Commission to grant permission
for USF's new dormitory and
Student Union.
The Commission bases its
relunctance on parking problems in the neighborhood and
has asked the University to
have on file the license numbers of all cars used by students.
In this way the University
can handle its own parking
violations and not force the
neighbors to report such violations to the police.
not a commitment to questioning. Life for these people is the
quest for the ready Catholic answer, and he feels that if he
does not have it, then somebody
else must."
He elucidated by saying that
this approach to life is one in
which the person feels that he
cannot learn or see, and although he comes up with the
formulated catechetical answer,
there is still no inner experience.
"There is the unwillingness,"
he said, "to transcend these
easy formulae, where the belief
is not one's own but someone
else's."
Basically, there are five types
of agnosticism to be found in
such a Catholic setting. The first
is the legalist, "the person who
is committed to going to mass
every Sunday and abstaining
from meat every Friday without thinking about the relation
between the man and the law.
He is interested in his Easter
duty or in weekly communion,
but he actually says, "I don't
know God, have never seen him,
and I don't think I can."
The second type of agnostic
is the person who has a need for
external props, the person who
relates to a principle and not to
people.
The third type of agnostic is
a special result of the Catholic
education system: the agnostic
of the ghetto. "This is the person who is not interested in going beyond himself, or his parish, or his city. Undergirding
this entire outlook is, once again,
(Continued on Page 5)
Moose Hal and Roses
THE FIVE ROSES—The five rose buds pictured above are all hoping to blossom into a full-
fledged queen at the annual Rose Dance sponsored by Delta Sigma Pi. They are, from left
lo right, Judy Ward, Providence; Carol Rilovich, Lone Mountain; Marina Adamich, Notre
Dame; Mary Rowland, Notre Dame, and Judy. Leary, USF. The winning American Beauty
will be named October 24 at the dance, to be h >M in Moose Lodge.
The Consumer Man
By RALPH FELICIELLO
He is one of those men whom we read about in our texts
(those books which save us the trouble of finding out what a
man meant by telling us what he said), a well-known figure
whose ability to think and whose courage to speak in themselves deserve our respect. Erich Fromm lectured at State
last Tuesday; I thought I'd listen to him.
"The Spiritual and Psychological Problems of Affluence"
was borrowed from an earlier work called The Sane Society.
Although Fromm is a disciple of Marx, he chose to clarify the
point. He said that the Russians practice 'real' Marxism
about as much as the West practices 'real' Christianity. We
all understood.
Fromm considers alienation one of the major psychological effects of capitalism. Man feels alienated from himself.
"He does not experience himself as the center from which
living acts of love and reason radiate." This is a result of
what has been called the marketing orientation a phenomenon of our industrial, technological society.
Man no longer experiences himself as a subject, as a
unique individual bearing powers and richness, but as an
impoverished and shallow being. This emptiness he attempts
to fill with things. He is no longer the sapient man but the
consumer man.
Gadgets clutter up our world, and our only connection
with them is that we know how to manipulate them. But why
claim innocence by speaking of that vague Man. Our own
lives belie this I-It approach to the world.
We are students, but how many of us consider knowledge
only another technique—know-how which will surely boost
our earning power and therefore our consumer power? There
are some of us who deceive ourselves into thinking we seek
truth, but by ignoring our own capacity to know, we foolishly
abdicate this awesome power to an institution or to books.
We erect false idols.
(Continued on Page 5)
Football expansion
is given a chance
that the Administration was considering dropping football because of a lack of interest.
According to sources in the
Administration, possibilities for
the expansion of the sport were
being considered, but the lack
of sufficient funds proved to be
the downfall of any expanded
program.
The members of the student
committee have been doing their
own checking into the financial
end and at the same time stirring student spirit.
Fr. Dullea was reported to
have expressed the thought that
football at USF will continue;
he said that the talk had opened
up "new areas of thought" for
him.
There may yet be a chance
for the expansion of football on
the Hilltop, according to Father
President.
Senior Class President Rich
Neilson told the ASUSF legislature Wednesday night that Fr.
Charles Dullea, S.J., President
of the University, would give
serious consideration to a gradual re-emphasis of the football
program at USF due to a growing enthusiasm for the sport
among the student body this
year.
A group of student leaders
met Tuesday afternoon with Fr.
Dullea in hopes to determine
just what the Administration
stand on football is. Earlier in
the year the Foghorn reported